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:1 WV Tiiiif 3 Toronto. V gdwardo, I3.A.So.v Rem;rkab| Family thy. cu-n..IA ........ I.-- 'l'H_E BARRIE EXAMINER uuu u-are mat any investment requires. For three generations the editors of The Youth s Companion have felt the same responsibility to the families of subscribers as if those families were their own. In taking a subscription _______;j_-? ,.....m were warm mirty tnousand dol- `Mars to any man. A family is indeed a golden invest`-. ment and needs the same protection and care that any investment generations the Qifnra n _- -_-...... sun. nvvsollvll iAVb_ra.h_a.m Lincoln, humorously said; of a. poor neighbor's assets,-. He hasi a wife and two children which I should ,think were worth thirty thousand dol-I any man." PROTECTING THE INVESTMENT Ahrolnoyn T -l..n.\1... I------ A; ` __.-__- `7 ' yur--w-v-wlutu` _ BRANOH OFFlCE-BANK OF TORONTO BLDG., BARRIE, ONTARIO . J.` WALKER, District Manager 0. E. Dutcher, Agent, Elmvale A. E. Culham, Agent. 3132097 Without obligation. kindly forward a copy of your booklet: ' Some Day You May Be Old." I would lib. to cave $_,,__,____.,________,_.__.__-____,___payable at age________ __________ I am _____ ______3/can of age. M... r ` `O ITIOIMI Vocal - Conserva- s 1ead1n| M. deg :-es. Phone 424 MAN;UFA@T'@'E@__LuFE V Iililamtn. rim:/`main imam :*' " `'33 ? LE] \?/lg]\2!]!} nNswRAm@E @@;~w EEAIIQII 4InI-n-I31 1;-nu- :1 :g:_n.:_ _- _ V Before It Is Too Late Consider Endowment Insurance ;. ut: 1.ouLn's uompa.nion-52 issues in 1925. 2. All the remaining issues of 1924. 3. The Companion Home Calendar for 1925. (Sent only on request). All -....,.... .._.,. 7...... buuu uuuga 111 1116. The 52 issues (if 1925 will be crowd- ed with serial stories, short stories, editorials, poetry, facts and fun. Sub- scribe now and recelve:s \ 1.1Is1,e5Youth's Compa.nion-52 issues I they have accepted a. trust; they have I done their part to see that the family iinvestment increased in value through [the development of character and a I taste forthe good things in life. Tho K0 hu.-........ .4: dnnr ___,-cc . - Addrfssn For nine years Mrs. Anna Marks lived in the same house at Boston with her husband. but in an that time they never spoke a word to each other. she testified when she sued for divorce. for" $2. 50. 4. Or include McCall's Magazine, the monthly authority on fashions. Both publications, . only $3 . 00. THE YOUTH'S COMPANION Commonwealth Ave. 0. St. Paul St.. _ Boston. Mass`.- Subscriptions Received at this Office. LL y of Simeon rner Toronto ntral Church a.m.. and 1 `Phnnn 1'89 [ Page TON Tnivnr J. urunw ell, C.A. glnoer "I;l;`r;x'iop St., Y TO LOAN. . Montreal Elizabeth Phone 105 . [on Fitted almlc If 11-; iauans LYN. ew Garage is Dino:-don `at otce tor y disease. otary Public. 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Four men. ,two of. them directors. one an auditor and one an accountant or the defunct Home Bank. have been` sentenced following trial on several counts before `Judge Coatsworth in `Toronto. One, an accountant. escap- ed with suspended sentenceythe others received varying terms in the Provin-I cial reformatory. Once more the com- i ment may be `made that there is an; international Debts _ Washinton sends out. repetitions of ` the stories that the French debt to the United States is to be funded on much more liberal terms" -than `those i given to Britain. .More color is added `to the statements by the assertion that the Debt Funding Commission has re- ceived a hint from President Coolidge `to the effect that he considers France not to be so well fitted to stand fin- ancial strain as Britain. If these` re- ports are found to_have a basis in action the latterwill leave a bad taste `in the mouth of Britain and her Do- minions. It would indeed be in the nature of a most unfriendly discrimin- ation against the one country that made a start to discharge` its ob1iga- , ,tions without prompting because `it ` believed that to be the only decent], path to take. When it comes to meet- 1 in: her obligations France should think 1 of Britain first; it was Britain that! saved her. \ I J (Opposite new Union Station) THEIR. HEADQUARTERS . ' Special Winter Rates Now Obtainpble R Quews Hotel\ ' T -1;;-0'! Cuticun Soap, Oint- ment and Tnlcum helps to prevent skin troubles. - ` I.-_I- ---L n_., AA -- - mu uwuxe not I wnue. My mother recommended Cuti- cura Soap and Ointment so I sent for 8 free sample which helped me. I purchased another cake of Cuti- cure Soap and 1 box of Cuticura ' Ointmen `and in 9. month I was completely healed." (Signed) Miss Edith H. Kelley, Rt. 1. Unity, Me., July 12-, 1923/. ` '\,o -- "Eczema first began with an itch- ihg on my face. Little red pimples formed that itched very badly caus- ing me to sctatch. "The scratching made the pimples large and red. and some nights they burned and kept me awake for a while. Mu IInnL._ ..-------~- ' ' ` - juj 0n raceffa Badly. Cucggjealed. ARE CORDIALLY .INVITED TO MAKE THE Docglgilfer I1,` 1924. YOUR son cannot start too early on a" life-time habit of saving. . , \ ~- Guide his rst steps on the road .to success` by presenting him with a `Bank of. Toronto Savings Account -as a Christmas gift-`-a gift worth wI11'Ie{,.',, ` EBZEMAIN R_ED _l_ %J_I1/l_PlES `BAN..l<.`t.FI0RNI0 Visitors to Toronto Allandalo A 3 n Xucvn ix 3" name FMMOND ons. mo. ng Rn I-ruin - Ivvivui -J; Inraulv l Anofhr amazing success_ for radio "was recorded the` other day, when` splendid photographs of the Prince of 5 u u --uuuvu -uuuIV An echo of thegenerale election carn- paign in Britain is the` bye-election for the seat in Dundee, Scotland, vacant -through the death of E. D. Morel. a Labor man. The battle now is`be- tween E. D. Simon. a Liberal, and T. Johnston, Labor. Liberals and Con- servatives are fighting under one ban- ner--that` of anti-socia1ism-and. the contest is a hot one. Both candidates were defeated in other constituencies- _ in the generl elections. Dundee has` two seats, ~ dward Scrymgeour, the ; prohibitionist, sitting for one. ~ '-HIV" U u The trouble in Egypt and `its echo in the Soudan seems to be over. There may be ..all>kincls of room- for discus- sion as to Britain's firm and drasticu actions. There are a number of critics g anyway. But the man in the street: will probably be quite satisfied. Sol far as developments have gone the crux of the situation is Cairo where the agi- tators are strongest` and most easily 'tain. 9' e ` reached by outside influences which` would rejoices atlany trouble for Brig] [or seed honors as well as those for! cu--can -V uuv I vlw Twenty-five out of thirty prizes were l awarded to Canada in the red winter. _wheat division of the. Chicago live-, stock show, exhibitorsfrom our West taking these honors.-The wheat sweep- stakes was won by J. `C. Mitchell. of. Dahinda, Sask., who" has twice beforei been- hailed wheat king of the world. ; In corn also Canada got into the prize I I classes. This was the first time of winning in corn. in which American ex- hibitors usually excel. , Sheep was an- other division wherecanada. this time` Ontario in particular, -scored heavily. Canadians also won timothy and clov- alfalfa, while T. E. Gibson of Hartney. Man., got first prize for a four-horsel team. These results are all gratifying. 5 the more so because few Canadian ex- hibitors at Chicago or elsewhere fail; to learn somethingp They are con- stantly _on the `alert for new pointers! in regard to all that pertains; to the particular produce or stock which they (show. ' * -vvuud Iiulu tllv TBUQIU Because he was so much the poet of the people, anything relating to Robert Burns, the great Scottish bard. will always find asympathetic audi- ence the world over. V The story that in a remote New Zealand village there has been found the manuscript of an` ,unpublished poem, written when he ; was on what proved to be his death- bed, has beensent out. -The claim is made that it was written to the girl who nursed him then, his wife being` ill.` Experts will soon decide on the claims of this manuscript whose own- ers say theythought it had been pub- lished and so _did not appreciate its full value. It is probable that like,, other poets and authors. much that Burns `wrote and which would be treas- ured today got into the hands of ` friends and` cronies who could not a] know that its price was beyond money, 1 and lost or destroyed it unthinkingly. 1 t Mmenv was given: in an mteresv :2o`::. :;`:: ::*`:h`;` ,`.$:L %23..;i.`;'%%;m?.' ' ing case recently heard in: the County we operas being played and sung the` _of'Elgin, Ont.`, and referred to in these A _ 15 columns. It - was that in which the mgrlgfogggadyuriggergs23 sfgeele gge ti county sought toremove from a farm generally recognized and more ade_ frontage on a highway an osage or- - :! ms wt was 3:::'zom*::;: ;:1a*osv:h`;tW;:;.n; was responsible for considerable drift- knows how to ke care of itself. Pue_ - usvuuiw along I VIIUVU - ing of snowin the` locality, and heavy. cm! was happy in his Work and its re expenses to the county for `cleaning. wards Ituvgas propelsedi to freplaceqtlhe hedge ' 1. W a stran vw re ence; e owner . ti objected chiefly on the - ground that c"""' "*` f '-"'` 1' a "fence would spoil a picturesque bit The 80Ye!'nment Of ESth0!1i9- 0118 Of 1 of ft~ohte;ge_ end not be `any real hehe. 5 the new states carved out of old Rus- 1 t_ mhe. court has decided that the; sia, took drastic action in the suppres- u hedgemuet go, but it ordered that the sion of a Communist rising at Reval, : fence to be erected on a part of the; the capital- The mutineers against -1 farm immediately fronting the owner's!th9 State Who Were backed by RUS- .1;-eetdehee, must he much more oma-]sian Soviet funds and organization, 1' mental than was propqsed, whne the} were squelched after a short but bloody rest of the fence may be as firstgencolmtel`. and the next day twenty guggegted by the eeuhty_ This 13 eetd ; of the leaders were court martialled .to be the first. case of its kind underj and 3h0t- Th9,S0Viet has I101 had the amended act for the removal of: much luck with its nefarious plans of obstructions from public highways. flat`-& ` - d element of real tragedy. in the case of ' men Whose solemn duty it is to pro- -tect the public, putting themselves in a. position where they must stand trial and run the, chance of imprisonment for derelictlon of duty. In the present instance the sentences yvlll be appealed. and a strenuous battle waged to upset them. . This will be_more keenly con- tested because the men already com- mltted and others to be trledgare fac- ing still other charges as well as pri- vate sults arising? out of the collapse of the Bank. a . Elmvalo Burnseuand the People Ivan Inn tun-an an .~.....I. mi. Photos by Radio Canada tr:-ihe: I-`ore ` _ A1--- -._4 -5 41,1 A Dundee `Battle ,1: LI. - Quiet in Eypi: LIA 1.. 'r.1.......;. __ Hdgeu and Fenced ....L ..-.... ...l_____ 1.. _W Ill HUI" E11113. C l Samuel came to Canada on the Moritclare. making the complete trip from the old land to Toronto by him IIH. [Samuel was _a favorite or` shlp-bon~d, according - to reports. Hc became particularly attached to the nhipfa mm but was the not of all u and crew. _ I 5;}; };{1{'etiE'""E{i;rI"Q; he stepped off the Canadian Pa- cific train, between the conductor and an official of the "department of i-mmig-ration. into the` noise of shunting trains. the confusion of `hurrying express trucks, and. the bustle that attends -the arrival and departure of f'l93Dd8, Samuel Moly- neux. 393 Oakwood Avenue, Toronto. as the` label on his -little bag pro- claimed him. paused for_a moment. and then. overcome by a sense of lonliness produced by the loss of his friends l of ship-board and train. burst into tears. A second later he was seized b his mother`, from whom he had een separated for one and as half of his four years, and nabbed... himself to. contentment in her arms. 1" Q_..__--I - . A - .- ing at the altar in a Scranton. Pa.. I Catholic church. [ . Forgetting that she. ad-been using her stove for a safe dep'o it vault, Mrs. E David Hankins, of Carmel, N .Y.pstart- ed- a fire in it, and $48 in bills and a check were hm-mad A `T. P." `Loftus, 54, died while prair-I cRossED ATLANTIC! 4 UNAFRAID o,'v}1'1'1 b at aturday of and Throat A _fnnwu cw a. ure In 112, and were burned . . , In Canada Too ` a Canada used to pride itself that the A gunman_~and -the. bandit was a flour- iishing product of other countries and icould not .thrive here. -v The robbery by masked and armed men of the |Moose Jaw post office is another re- lminder of the fact that the bandit is .very much with us and that we have to fight him with allthe toy.-ce at our command. There have been too many bank and other robberies :-Lccomnanied by murder in some instances. in this `country of late.. Closer co-operation between all the police forces of the lcountry and increases in :1 number of Q the forces, are prime needs. /It is` fair . to add that there` is far better co-oner- ation among police forces than there !used to be. ' v---uvu Iv: -U\ol 9|-ILIUII I One of the principal features of the . Saskatchewan government's liquor bill `is provision for local option in` mun- icipalities and districts. '.Otherwise there is nothing new in any of the regulations for the handling of liquor through stores under control `of a board, and in sealed packages. 'All attempts at controlling . liquor are interesting, but there will `always be controversy as to whether ``control" is | possible. rt Iuaill llll ZWTIIIGIII Britain and Germany have reached and, signed a formal treaty- of com- merceand navigation. Trade between the two" will be stimulated and so will the normal relationships of prenvar times. `Such an agreement was bound to come sooner or later. It may be taken as avsign that while the war will "not be forgotten theremis no desire to continue it.` Germanyin particular cannot afford to be hostile in matters g relating to her efforts to discharge her reparations obligations. U I Iuwllll I'\$lC I CIIIII Famous the world over by reason Butterfly," The Girl of the Golden West," La Tosca" and other operas. Giacomo Puccini, the Italian composer, V of the tremendous success of Madame! died recently "in a Brussels hospital. following an operation on his throat. For a century and a half the male_ members of his family have been not- . ed composers in Italy and Europe. Gl- acomo,_was the most famous of them._ operas, being the world over during his life time. Gen- ius of today is on the whole more quately rewarded than ever it was. It `does not alwa s follow that genius I how re-e- wards. ` ~. - ' were; sent from London t I iWales. Premier - Baldwin. President Coolidge and ~- other pr minent men New.York. The work was `done without a hitch and the photographs are good. They have been widely shown through the press` and other agencies. somewhat blurry looking the likeness- es are unmistakeable, and the improve- ments to the process now going on will. it is claimed, soon admit of these photos being sent with as much clear- -nss as those photographed in a .studio. It islpredicted that in a very short time it W1ll'be possible to send any moving picttfre across the water for reproduction on either side of the Atlantic. What a marvellous age. While` 9 Little." Samuel. Molyneu-x unves '_Provides for Ldcal Option -. n~P 1-kn .a........:.....1 n--4__,,, Britain and Germany .. .-.....: r1.........._-. u___-_ culu I ITPDII . to 5 p.m. North 883! bstotrioo ` Barrie, . Bar mn.